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abTEM: transmission electron microscopy from first principles

abTEM is a flexible open-source package for simulating transmission electron microscopy experiments. We strive for easy integration with other simulation codes and analysis tools accessible from Python. Utilization of other open-source projects makes abTEM fast and scalable from a laptop to a high-performance computing environment.

Here are a few links to help you get started; please also note the navigation menu on the left side of the page.

Getting started

New to abTEM? Visit our guides for getting started. They will introduce you to abTEM’s main concepts, help you install the code, and provide links to basic examples.

User guide

The user guide provides in-depth information about the key concepts of abTEM with background information about simulations of transmission electron microscopy experiments.

Example gallery

Our example gallery provides fully functional code templates to assist with your common simulation tasks, for demonstrating a unique topic, or for reproducing result in published research articles.

API reference

Our reference contains a detailed description of the abTEM API based on code documentation. It describes the methods and their parameters, and assumes that you have an understanding of the key concepts.